Fly-chasing screen-door attachment



July 3, 1923. 1,460,826

. H. PILGER FLY CHASING SCREEN DOOR ATTACHMENT Filed March 11 1922 2Sheets-Sheet l Snow dot July 3, 1923. 1,460,826 H. PILGER FLY CHASINGSCREEN DOOR ATTACHMENT Filed March 11, 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 'To allwhom-it may concern;

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' Ap lication filed March-11, 1922. Serial Nb. 542,910."

Be it known that I, HnRunRrPILGnR, a

fcitizen of :the" United Stated-residing at Plainv-icw, in the countyof'Pierce and State of'Nebraska, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Fly-Chasing Screen-Door I Attachments, of which t iefollowing. is' a specification. r V l l he Object of my Said inventionis the provision of a simp'leand eflicient' fly chasing attachment forscreen doors,"operable manually and independently of the opening andclosing ofthedoor from theinner and outer sides thereof.

I of the ordinary well known construction,

To the attainment of the-foregoing, the invention consistsin theimprovement as hereinafter described anddefinitely' claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification 2--Figure 1 is an elevatlon of the outersid'e of a screen door equippedwith my unprovement.

Figu'res 2 andB are sections taken in th e planes indicated by thelines2 2 and 3+8,,

respectively, of Figure 1-,

Figure 4 is a detail front elevation of the wheel comprised in theimprovement.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in thedrawings.

The screen door 1, in general, is preferably all of the "views a ofthough it may be o-f any other construction compatible with thepurpose-of my invention without involving departure from the scope ofthe same as claimed. In accordance with screen door 1 is equipped withan upper fixed crossbar 2, and at a point immediately above itsintermediate cross-bar 3 and preferably adjacent to its swinging edge 4the door/is provided with an opening 5, Figure 2, formed throughthewirefs'creen 6.

Mounted in a bracket 7 fixed to the door and slightly above said opening.5 is a pulley8,

An upper pulley 9 is mounted in a bracket 10 on the attachment bar 2,and is arranged at '1 right angles to the pulley 8.

At 11 is a spindle carried by the attach ment bar 2', and at 12 is a flychasing wheel mounted on the said spindle 11, in para allelism orsubstantial parallelism with the I face or outer side of the door, andhaving blades 13 which are preferably though not RATED wardly throughthe opening 5 it as shown at the left'of Figure 1.

my invention the V arranged in front 7 of and.

little liability of' flies'pas si'ng through the necessarily, pitched inthe'direction' of'theiry f I widths, Figures 2 and 3,;with 'a viewtoair;

the wheelis rotated. -The wheel-l2is-spaced ahub 14, Figures 2 and 3.

culatingair after the manner ofa fan when Connected to and extendingupwardly}: I from'the frame-bar3of thedoor lis are,- a

per endof the spring15 is' a cable l6 woun about and connected to thehub 1 1. cable tractile spring 15, and connected m ths-up: Q if16*isialso connectedto andiwound severalf about the pulley 8- andthrough the opening times about the wheel-chub 14:; 'and is passed a toandoverthe pulley 9 and downwardly and I 5 in the'screen 6, "Figures '1.an'd'Q. At its Y lower endand at the inner side oftheTdoor z 1 ment ofthe end portion ofjthe cable forthe' pulleys 8 and 9 .is a handle19,"said handle being preferably connectedjto 'said cable stretch by apiece of c'ableQO interw .1 the said cable 1o is provided witha handle w1'7 and a stop 18, the latter to limit the move i \'On -the' stretohofthe cable '16 between posed between the handle andthe yoable' 16 I Inthepractical use of my lmpro'vement when the handle 17 is pulled inwardly,rela- 1 L l tive to the door 1,"or the handle 19 is pulled downwardly,the wheel 121will be rotated"v @utherelease of the ulled f a d y takenup on the'h'ub 14. t e It will be gathered from the foregoing thatprecedent to opening the. door 1 a per-j; a I son at the outer side ofthe door hasbutq v to pull downwardly on theh'andle 19 toactu ate thewheel 12 and frighten flies fromthe door. The handle 19 may then be usedif toso frighten the flies that there will be but door way while thedoor is open,

Precedentto opening the door a-person iiiseeking to pass outwardly has"but to pull thehandle; '17 and rotate the wheel '12: in]

M'Oflufl order to frighten flies v from the 'doorand,

1015 'desired'fas a pull for the convenient openfr' it i i H ing of thedoor. It, will-also be gathered a l a that the rotation of the wheel 12will operate 1 in front of the bar 2, and is prOvided With GQL" lessenthe liability offlies entering the door Way While the door is open. p

I have entered into a detailed description of the construction andrelative arrangement of the parts embraced in the present and preferredembodlment of my invention 1n order to impart a full, clear and exactunderstanding of the said embodiment. I do not desire, however, to beunderstood as confining myself to the said specific construction andrelative arrangement of parts inasmuch as in the future practice oftheinvention various changesand modifications may be made such as fallwithin the scope of my invention as defined in my appended claims.

' Having described my invention, What I claim and desire to secure byLetters-Patent,

1S I- i 1. The-combination Witha screendoor, a

fly frightening Wheel mounted'at the outer side thereof, a cable havingone, end engaging around the hub of the Wheel and secured thereto, aretractile spring connectedwith the door and the opposite end ofthecable, 1

a further cable also having one end engag ing around the hub ofthe'vvheel and secured thereto, and handles connected With the.lastmentioned cable, one of the handles being the door and the oppositeend of the cable,.

and a handle at the outerside of the door and connected through anothercable with the door and wheel and adapted toserve the additional serviceof adoor pull.

In testimony whereof, I. afiiX myslgnatureq .H RBERT 'PILGER;

